Just Read: Recent Episodes
Andrew Dow
Bible study can seem like an insurmountable task—Commentaries, encyclopedias, lexicons, word studies, etc. Many Christians have a hard time with Bible study because they neglect the first and most important step: Reading the Bible.
This podcast is designed to help Christians JUST READ the Bible.
The disciples appoint a new apostle to replace Judas. But the choice to make someone an apostle is ultimately given to God.
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The first thing the Apostles do after Jesus returns to heaven is appoint a new Apostle to replace Judas Iscariot. They are very particular about who can fill this role. It must be someone who can serve as a WITNESS of Jesus life and teaching.
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In Acts 1:1–14, we read about some of Jesus's last moments with His disciples. Before His ascension, he explains to them how far they will travel to teach people the Gospel.
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The book of Daniel describes God's authority and points to His eternal kingdom. But Daniel is not the only prophet who speaks about those things.
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Nebuchadnezzar's second dream foretold his own future. But the interpretation highlighted God's sovereignty.
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Nebuchadnezzar's lesser known dream involves the world's largest tree.
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Only Daniel (by God's power) is able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream. Babylon may be in power for now, but that reign will not last forever.
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Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has a dream that no one can interpret.
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One of the father's most common instructions is to avoid the seductions of woman folly. No good comes from giving in to sin's allurements.
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The people we associate with can help or hurt our efforts to remain pure.
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To live a pure life, one must establish an intimate relationship with wisdom. By making wise choices we can avoid all kinds of soul-defiling sins!
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The proverbial father teaches his son to avoid foolishness at all costs. To act without wisdom is to follow a path toward inevitable impurity!
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The 51st Psalm is David's prayer of repentance after he sinned against God, Uriah, and Bathsheba.
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In the 38th Psalm, David explains the suffering that accompanies sins. He learned these lessons the hard way. But he also models the remedy: confession and repentance.
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The 32nd Psalm explains the need to confess our sins. Hiding sin causes trouble in life. Confessing sins releases us of that secret and allows God to forgive and deliver us.
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The 6th Psalm is a great example of how we should respond to sin. Like David, we should lament our sin and cry out to God for forgiveness.
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The 65th Psalm explains how praiseworthy God is by exploring how he controls aspects of nature.
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The 8th Psalm praises God as magnificent because of how sees fit to rule over his creation. Namely, he blesses humanity with the right to rule nature alongside Him.
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The 29th Psalm is a poem that helps us understand how powerful God is. The mere voice of God is able to subdue aspects of nature that we struggle to tame!
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The 19th Psalm is a poem about how God communicates with us. He speaks to us through His Word, but we also learn about God through His Creation!
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The 128th Psalm lets us in on the secret to a beautiful family-life: following God's guidance produces good spouses, parents, and children.
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The 127th Psalm reminds that everything we do is vain if we do not include God as the foundational architect.
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The 37th Psalm is a poem about how God cares for those who follow His way.
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The first Psalm explains the difference between the righteous and the wicked. Each kind of person chooses to focus on very different things. This leads to very different results in their lives.
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The 119th Psalm is easily the longest Psalm. In terms of word count, however, it is not the longest chapter in the Bible. Even so, this lengthy poem is devoted to acknowledging the greatness of God's Word!
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The 2nd Psalm is an important reminder that the kings of the earth have no power over God and His Messiah!
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The 110th Psalm points to a King like Melchizedek. The New Testament tells us that it is Jesus, the Messiah, who would be our King and Priest!
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The 11th Psalm expresses trust in God, but also points to a reality that will only be fully known in Jesus the Christ!
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The first verse of the 22nd Psalm was quoted by Jesus as he hung on the cross—"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" From beginning to end, this Psalm is full of rich allusions to Jesus the Christ!
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The 17th Psalm is an example of David praying to God with complete trust.
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The 37th Psalm compares two life choices: on the on hand, the wicked who refuse to seek God's guidance; on the other hand, the righteous who trust in God.
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The 125th Psalm briefly encourages us to consider the benefits of trusting in God's guidance!
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The 15th Psalms answers this question: who can live with God?
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In the 25th Psalm, David expresses how he trusts God to guide him through confrontations with his enemies.
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The 47th Psalm encourages us to sing praises to God! After all, God is the exalted King over heaven and earth! Let's sing praises to Him!
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The 97th Psalm shows us that God is praiseworthy because of His extraordinary authority and power!
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The 148th Psalm is another Psalm of praise. It helps us see that everything God created was designed to praise and glorify Him!
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The 139th Psalm praises God for his perfect wisdom and knowledge!
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Psalm 100 invites us to praise God because He is a loyal and faithful Creator!
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Job ends his words by emphatically declaring his innocence. But a fourth speaker emerges: a young man named Elihu.
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Bildad gets his final word in and Zophar can't even bring himself to respond a third time. There is an important truth in this reading: true wisdom and understanding can only be found in God!
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In his third speech, Eliphaz aggressively fabricates sins that he assumes Job must have committed. After all, what else could account for Job's suffering?
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Bildad and Zophar take their turns berating Job for a second time. Meanwhile, Job continues to claim that he is suffering unjustly.
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Each of Job's friends have taken a jab at him. But after hearing Job's responses, Eliphaz decides to speak up a second time!
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Bildad and Zophar agree that, if Job repents of his sins, then God would put an end to his misery. But Job remains confident that he has done nothing wrong.
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Most of the book of Job contains a conversation between Job and his friends as they wrestle with this question: "Why is Job suffering?" In this reading Eliphaz tells Job to accept God's discipline and move on. But Job maintains that he has done nothing deserving of discipline.
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The story of Job invites us to think about this question: "Why do good people suffer?"
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Solomon's reign is characterized by wisdom and power. However, his life becomes a spiritual tragedy about faithlessness.
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After Solomon built the temple, he put on an elaborate dedication ceremony. This ceremony provided a sort of renewal of God's covenant with Israel.
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Solomon spent seven years building God a glorious house. This is a building where God dwells with His people and where His people can have fellowship with Him.
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A key moment in Solomon's life is when God prompts him to choose something with which to be blessed. Because of his choice, God blessed him with wisdom, wealth, and power!
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Solomon firmly established his reign by eradicating all those who might threaten to take his throne. By the end of his reign, he was exceedingly prosperous!
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The glorious temple of Yahweh comes with a caveat. God will inhabit it and bless those who worship therein, so long as those worshippers are truly devoted to Him.
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Solomon brings the Ark of the Covenant into the newly completed Temple. When he does, God visibly and tangibly enters his new home.
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Solomon continues working on God's Temple.
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All the preparations have been made. Now Solomon builds the temple.
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Following David's death, Solomon becomes King over Israel. He immediately gets to work planning and building God's Temple.
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Before David dies, he has some instructions for Israel's leaders and some fatherly advice for Solomon.
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David is now an old man lying on his death bed. Even so, his family and his kingdom continue to be marked by turmoil and conflict. These are the continued effects of his sins.
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David has successfully ended two revolts, but his reign continues to be marked by conflict. In this reading, David encounters some old, familiar foes.
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Absalom's revolt against his father ends in death and sorrow. As soon as one revolt is squelched, another revolt arises.
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One consequence for David's sin was a home life full of turmoil and conflict. This becomes evident in David's clash with his son Absalom.
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God brings good out this terrible situation and David learns his lesson.
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Even David's terrible sins were not so great that God could not forgive them.
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Try as he might, David could not hide his sins from God.
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David has sinned. As if that wasn't bad enough, David is about to go to extreme measures to cover-up his sin!
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To this point, David has been sharply contrasted by Saul's wicked behavior. Now, however, we learn that David is also a deeply flawed human.
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David finds the last remaining descendant of Saul—Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth. By caring for Mephibosheth, David is able to show kindness to Saul's family and fulfill his covenant with Jonathan.
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King David has big plans: he wants to build a glorious house for God. God does not allow David to build Him a house; instead, God decides to build David a house!
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David becomes King over all Jerusalem and immediately gets to work! Along the way, he sets himself apart from Saul's reign.
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David's power in Israel grows as alliances shift and key players make politically advantageous maneuvers. Behind it all is a God who is bringing David to the throne.
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The book of Samuel continues with two competing kings in Israel—David and Ish-bosheth.
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David does something Saul refused to do while Saul fights his last battle.
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The Philistines are preparing to battle Israel again, but this time is different. Saul learns that this battle will be his last.
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Saul continues to pursue David. David is given another chance to kill Saul. But David determines to leave that up to God.
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In this reading, David and Saul confront one another in a cave, Samuel's death is mentioned as if in passing, and David begins accumulating wives for himself.
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It has become clear that Saul will not stop until David is dead. So, David runs away.
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Jonathan and David implement their plan. Unfortunately, it becomes glaringly obvious that Saul is out to kill David.
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David is (understandably) convinced that Saul is trying to kill him. To confirm this (obvious) conclusion, he and Jonathan devise a plan to see what Saul's intentions are.
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David is able to escape Saul's murderous plots time and time again in part because of his relationship with Saul's children—Jonathan and Michal.
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Saul gives his daughter to marry David, but his motives are less than admirable.
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The lives of Saul and David are intertwined now. The closer they become, however, the more jealous Saul becomes of David.
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David doesn't take a sword to fight Goliath. He won't need one. David takes five stones into the duel. He won't even need all of those!
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David determines to go fight the giant in order to silence him. David makes some unexpected choices when it comes to his armor and weapons.
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David arrives at the battle line and hears Goliath's taunts firsthand.
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While Saul and Israel are at war, David is at home tending to his father's sheep.
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Saul and the Israelites are at war with the Philistines. But in this battle, the Philistines have a secret weapon.
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Our reading schedule for this week provides a day to review the chapter. For that reason, this episode contains 1 Samuel 16 in its entirety.
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To calm his mind, Saul sends for a musician. The musician he receives provides for some dramatic irony.
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While David is being filled with God's Spirit, Saul is being afflicted with an "evil spirit."
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Jesse parades seven of his children before Samuel. But it is his eighth-born son, David, who God will establish as Israel's king.
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Samuel is instructed to anoint Saul's successor. Samuel finds himself at Jesse's house.
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Saul's unwillingness to obey led God to reject him as king.
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Saul is commissioned by God to punish the Amalekites for their past sins. However, rather than obeying God's simple instruction, Saul decides to take matters into his own hands.
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Saul's poor decisions mount creating an ever larger problem. His decision to keep his troops from eating ends up condemning his son, Jonathan, to death.
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Jonathan, Saul's son, goes on a secret mission that leads to a military victory over the Philistines. Meanwhile, Saul is making military decisions that are hindering God's people.
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Saul goes toe-to-toe with the Philistines, but he quickly discovers they are the superior force. Saul allows fear to push him to disobey God.
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Samuel reaffirms that God has selected Saul to be king. However, he also reiterates the solemn warning to be faithful to God.
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Saul's first official act as king is to amass an army and defeat the Ammonites.
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Saul left home to find some lost donkeys. He's returning home having been named and anointed the King of Israel!
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Israel wants to be led by a King. After all, this arrangement works well enough for other nations! The man God picks looks like a King, but he is otherwise unimpressive.
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Samuel's children aren't turning out to be the great leaders that Israel hoped they'd be. So, the elders of Israel ask Samuel to appoint a king to lead them.
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The Philistines find a convenient opportunity to attack Israel. But Israel's changed posture toward God leads to a changed outcome in the battle.
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The Philistines send the Ark of God away. To their relief, God directs it back to the Israelites.
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The Philistines are desperate to get rid of the Ark of the Covenant. They devise a plan to do just that.
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The Philistines have stolen the Ark of the Covenant, but God is about to take it back!
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The Philistines go to war against Israel. God will use this encounter to teach the Israelites an important lesson about Himself!
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As a young child, Samuel receives a message from God. This is the beginning of Samuel's work as a prophet of God.
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Eli's sons become increasingly wicked while Samuel matures and gains favor with God.
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After God answered her prayer, Hannah gave thanks and praise to God in return.
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God heard Hannah's prayer and blessed her with a son. This child was dedicated to the Lord's service from a young age.
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We meet a new flurry of characters: Elkanah, Hannah, Eli, and others. However, we are simply setting the stage for Samuel—a new prophet of God—to emerge.
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The book concludes with the birth of Ruth's and Boaz's son, Obed. This child would be grandson of none other than King David himself.
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Boaz and the closest relative make the agreement official. Boaz will have the right to redeem Elimelech's land and Ruth.
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Boaz approaches Ruth's nearest kinsmen to inquire as to whether he would like to redeem Elimelech's estate.
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Ruth returns home to Naomi with and abundance of food. Now they wait to see who will act as her kinsmen redeemer.
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Naomi devises a plan. Ruth follows the plan. Boaz agrees to the plan.
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Ruth returns to Naomi with word about her day. Naomi encourages her to continue gleaning from Boaz's field.
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Boaz takes notice of Ruth and treats her with special kindness.
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Ruth and Naomi settle into Bethlehem. A new character—Boaz—is introduced in this reading.
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Ruth's devotion to Naomi is shown in this reading. Ruth follows Naomi back to the Promised Land.
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The book of Ruth tells a story of a Moabite woman who lived during the time of the Judges. From the beginning, Ruth sticks out prominently as a woman of devotion.
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Samson's life ends with one last display of strength and the defeat of Israel's Philistine oppressors.
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Samson is looking for love in all the wrong places. Even so, God continues to use his ill-advised circumstances to afflict the Philistines.
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Samson's rage is the reason he finds himself in many unfortunate situations. However, it is also the way he gets out of these unfortunate situations! Through it all, God uses Samson as a tool to deliver Israel from oppression.
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Samson's desire for a Philistine wife seems like a bad idea from the beginning. But the Spirit of God uses Samson's decisions to weaken the Philistines.
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This week's readings will tell the story of Samson. After 40 years of Philistine oppression, God selects a deliverer who is... not yet conceived.
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The tragic ending of Jephthah's story continues. In this reading, civil war breaks out among the Israelites.
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Jepthah's victory ends on a bitter note because of his own foolish promise to God. What should have been a joyous occasion is turned into months of mourning.
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A new judge comes to defend Israel against oppression. This time Jephthah—the son of a harlot—comes to lead Israel in battle.
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Despite God sending two more judges—Tola and Jair—Israel continues to rebel against God. They find themselves in the hands of their enemies once again.
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Gideon's story is over, but his son Abimelech attempts to make a name for himself. Abimelech becomes king by oppressing Israel before he meets his own demise.
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After Gideon's victory, he fathered a son named Abimelech. Despite Gideon's deliverance, Israel rebels again.
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Gideon's story comes to an end when he overtakes and kills the kings of Midian.
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This reading tells Gideon's most famous story. He defeats the Midianites with an army of only 300 men!
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Gideon successfully tears down the idols, but he maintains his characteristic cowardice throughout.
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The story of Gideon begins. This "valiant warrior" looks more like a hiding and untrusting coward. However, God chooses him to deliver Israel.
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Deborah's and Barak's song comes to a close in this song. They remember Jael's role in defeating the threat and ask God to defeat all His enemies similarly.
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The song of Deborah and Barak continues. They remember the tribes who fought by their side, but ultimately attribute the victory to God.
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After the battle, Deborah and Barak sing a song memorializing their victory and praising God for His aid.
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The next deliverer in the book of Judges is a woman named Deborah. She stands up to deliver Israel when no other leader is willing!
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In this reading, Ehud delivers Israel from Eglon, the king of Moab. Shamgar also delivers Israel from Philistines in this text.
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Because of Israel's idolatry, God allowed a foreign king to conquer them for a time. When they repented, God sent Othniel to act as a deliverer.
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Israel's commitment to the Lord faded as Joshua died and a new generation emerged.
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God gave clear instructions through Joshua: drive out the Canaanites. The Israelites, however, found the task to be too much. Eventually, most of the Israelites found it more convenient to simply live alongside the Canaanites.
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Israel has been given the promised land, but they have not yet fully eradicated the Canaanites. Judah leads the charge against the opposition, but we begin to see that Israel is incapable and/or unwilling to drive out the land's inhabitants. This is sure to spell trouble later on.
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Joshua offers one last encouragement for the Israelites before his death. With Moses and Joshua gone, will Israel remain faithful to the Lord's covenant?
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The Israelites settle in their new territories. Those who inherited land on the east side of the Jordan River return to their homes. As Joshua's death approaches, he begins making his final remarks of encouragement and warning to the Israelites.
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The Levites are the last tribe to receive their inheritance. Rather than a region, the Levites are given various cities. There is no question, though, that God held up His end of the deal by fulfilling His promise to give Israel the land.
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Joshua distributes the remaining land by casting lots for each of the remaining tribes. By the end of chapter 19, all of the land has been divided amongst the 12 tribes.
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In this reading, the tabernacle is set up at Shiloh and Joshua begins divvying out the land by casting lots on behalf of the remaining tribes.
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The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh continue to receive their inheritance. Despite Joshua's encouragement, they seem to be unable to drive out the Canaanites completely.
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The work of dividing the land continues. This time, Ephram and Manasseh receive their allotment.
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The tribe of Judah is the first to receive its inheritance. Among them is Caleb—one of the original spies Moses sent into the land. Because of Caleb's faithfulness, God helped him defeat the very giants that Israel feared all those years ago!
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The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh already received their land from Moses. They would live on the east side of the Jordan River. Additionally, Moses gave instructions about how to handle the Levite's inheritance. All that is left is to divvy up the land for the remaining 9 1/2 tribes.
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There are still inhabitants to be conquered, but the division of the land begins. In this reading, the Reubenites receive the specifications of their allotment.
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Joshua and the Israelite army continue to work their way through the Promised Land. Everywhere they turn God provides victory.
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Five kings rose up against Israel, and five kings were defeated by Israel. No groups of kings can stand before Israel so long as God is fighting for them!
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When the Gibeonites are in trouble, Israel must come to their aid. However, God is working behind the scenes to ensure that Israel's conquest continues.
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Israel confronts the consequences of their covenant with the Gibeonites.
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Israel next encounter is with the crafty Gibeonites who trick them into thinking they are from a distant country.
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After the destruction of Ai, Israel pauses to reflect on the Law of God. They remember the blessings that were promised for obedience, and the curses that would follow if they were disobedient.
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Joshua and Israel put God's plan into action. Ai will believe that Israel is fleeing before them for a second time. They will never expect the ambush that Israel has set up behind their city.
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Israel's first attempt to conquer Ai did not end well. Now that they have removed the sin from among themselves, Israel is going to attack Ai again. This time, though, they have the Lord's blessing.
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Achan's sin does not go unpunished. He is identified and put to death in order to show us the seriousness of sin!
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Israel is stopped in their conquest because of sin in the camp. A man named Achan has stolen from God and been deceptive.
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After Jericho is defeated, the Israelites must hold up their end of the bargain with Rahab. Rahab and her family was spared for her faith to deliver the spies!
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